Who Cares Anyways? How to Fight the Fear That Keeps You from Writing Your Memoir
"Who are the two demons that get the most airtime in memoirists’ heads? Who Cares Anyways? and its evil twin What Will People Think?
What Will People Think? is scary as hell and can loom large over your writing desk like the elongated shadow of a cartoon villain. It can also be dismantled, but we’ll fight that battle another day. But for now, let’s go to the mat with Who Cares Anyways?."
From the Farmhouse Table: August 2020
In this time in history, when racism, extremism, sickness, brutality, and death dominate the news and our personal conversations and experiences, it can be really hard to find beauty at times.
A vase of bright summer flowers adorns the Farmhouse Table in front of me, but stormy thoughts of grief, rage, and bewilderment cloud my heart as I think of the painful plight of our country.
From the Farmhouse Table: July 2020
“It’s like you looked both ways before crossing the street and then an airplane hit you,” a friend said to me about the times we’re living through.
That’s one way to sum it up! But as I sit here at the beloved Farmhouse Table at Hedgebrook, the view is as bucolic as ever – the rich array of green and blue hues, llamas grazing, wildflowers waving and the sunlight enlivening the Salish Sea.
Standing in Solidarity
As a global community of writers, Hedgebrook is committed to raising the voices of those who have been historically marginalized—including, and especially, those of black women.
